Telecoms providers can be compelled to co-operate with requests from the government, relayed through ministers, under the 1984 Telecommunications Act, but privacy advocates have raised concerns that the firms are not doing enough to challenge orders enabling large-scale surveillance, or are co-operating to a degree beyond that required by law.
"Finland's Act on the Protection of Privacy in Electronic Communications which safeguards confidentiality and privacy in telecommunications was the main reason behind TRI's move to Finland.
Since joining the Bush administration, Keisler has continued to back legal decisions that erode the privacy of telecommunications customers - invoking state secrets in an attempt to stop lawsuits against AT&T for cooperating in the administration's wireless wiretapping program.
(d) to support proposals to respect human rights in relation to international telecommunications, such as on privacy and personal data protection in relation to personal data and communications.
Secondly, to the question of Mr van Velzen on the software and data privacy in telecommunications.
The bill would not only deny the Court the ability to finally make a determination as to the legality of the NSA program and the extent of the spying, but would effectively guarantee immunity for the telecommunications companies who violated the privacy of their customers.
UPDATE: 6 33 p.m. -- Emptywheel blogger Marcy Wheeler writes there's at least one other OLC memo that the government has acknowledged but that was redacted from the list of OLC opinions: a Jan . 8 2010, opinion analyzing whether the Electronics Communication Privacy Act prevents telecommunications companies from voluntarily turning over international communications to the government.
The data protection Directive is complemented by the Directive for data protection and privacy in the telecommunications sector.
The longer Democrats stall Mukasey's approval in the Senate, the longer they'll leave the telecommunications fox in charge of the privacy hen house.
Amid rising concern about privacy, BT Group, the British telecommunications company, said Monday that it would not adopt a technology that lets advertisers tailor their pitches to consumers based on interests revealed by their Internet use.
